Trossbach v. Trossbach’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Wimmer v. Wimmer (1980), 57 Ill. App. 3d 542 - Kalman v. Bertacchi (1978)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Springer v. Springer · Metzger v. Metzger · Kauffman v. Kauffman · O'Connor v. Estevez · Collins v. Collins
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under existing procedure, the purpose of the Statute of Frauds is to protect a party, not from temptation to commit perjury but from perjured evidence against him. The purpose of evidence is to prove facts. Admissions of a party in testifying, though in form evidence, are in essence not mere evidence, but make evidence against him unnecessary. Cf. General Rules of Practice and Procedure, I, Rule 1; II, Rules 1, 2, 4, 6; Scheihing v. Baltimore & O.R. Co., 180 Md. 168, 169, 174 , 23 A.2d 381 . We think the Statute of Frauds requires no more. "Furthermore, admissions of a party in the form of testimony would constitute sufficient `memoranda' under Section 4 or Section 17, or `writings' under Section 7, of the statute. For this purpose we think recorded testimony should be regarded as equivalent to signed depositions." Id. at 55-56.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court will enforce the specific performance of a contract within the statute, not in writing, where it is . . . confessed by the answer of the defendant and the statute is not relied upon as a defence. In such a case relief is granted upon the ground that as the statute was intended to prevent fraud and perjury, there can be no danger of either where the contract is . . . confessed in the answer; or upon the ground that the defendant has waived the benefit of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Michaels““. . . [A] constructive trust is not based upon agreement, but is raised by construction of law, regardless of the intention of the parties, when land or other property is acquired by fraud, misrepresentation, imposition, or concealment, or under any other circumstances which render it inequitable for the holder of the legal title to retain it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.